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GALLERY: Those Country Music Beards Waylon, Willie, Chris Stapleton

Country music has a long history of great beards. In this gallery on National Beard day, we share some of country music’s best beards from today and yesterday.

GALLERY: Those Country Music Beards
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Country music has a long history of great beards. In this gallery on National Beard day, we share some of country music's best beards from today and yesterday.

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American singer, songwriter, and musician Waylon Jennings (1937 - 2002) performing live, 14th October 1983. (Photo by John Minihan/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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ST LOUIS, MO - OCTOBER 04: Willie Nelson performs during Farm Aid 2009 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on October 4, 2009 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)


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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Recording artist Chris Stapleton performs onstage during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS)


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NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 14: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Singer-songwriter Jordan Davis attends the 52nd annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 14, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)


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NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 07: Singer-songwriter Sam Hunt attends the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 7, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images For CMT)


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LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 09: Thomas Rhett attends the 2018 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on October 9, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images For dcp)


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NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 06: Singer-songwriter Dierks Bentley attends the 55th annual ASCAP Country Music awards at the Ryman Auditorium on November 6, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)


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NASHVILLE, TN - AUGUST 23: Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley attend the 11th Annual ACM Honors at the Ryman Auditorium on August 23, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for ACM)


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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 08: Garth Brooks performs onstage during MusiCares Person of the Year honoring Dolly Parton at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 8, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)


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NASHVILLE, TN - APRIL 16: Brantley Gilbert, Tim McGraw and Kris Kristofferson backstage at Keith Urban's Fourth annual We're All For The Hall benefit concert at Bridgestone Arena on April 16, 2013 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.